146 II , - ,- "" A r; f MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE {' CHA MED BY 10th fJ6f ofet I " - , lit's the very best and luxuriously dIfferent J Rates? High, perhaps in dollar cost but most reasonable in value for unusual luxury services. The only hotel in town that's completely televisioned and air conditioned . . . the hotel that has every- thing. ..even to bathroom extension phones! May we send a brochure? THE " sea ng 39th Street lust east of Park Ave., New York 16 Bertram Weal, General Manager MUrray Hill 6-1600, Teletype NY 1-392 ..... '^ ^. Best in the Field . <"'^,. J: . . . . ,.. The gift for. every huntsman: ou'r new tan cord,uroy hunting vest with htHldsome duck design.. in briHiant r'lòturalcolors Rayon Un- ing-. interlined with quilfe,d Dacrön fibre for warmth . Wifhoutweigbt ..K ilfêd .. coH . ar t . . xi ppe . ' . front, spadou ,po(;kets. Sn:es 38 to 46. Only ";D Ppd. : ;:::r E: ;:r:::: P d?"búz. d1""J !Î3Mn J fJnc. . DEPT. N276 . WESTWOOD. MASS. BRANCHES: VINEYARD HAVEN. HOBE SOUND NAR.R.A TIVE DIR.GE FOR. WIND INSTR.UMENTS OR, BLOW THE MAN DOWN This is a narrative dirge about A guy named Joe, who played the flaut Yes, Joe was a flutist, right enough- A player of flauts who knew his stuff In sessions of jam or symphony Joe played the flute-a flautist, he. O.K. But you see the trouble with Joe Was this: H simply didn't know W hen to quit' He couldn't just let alone Well enough. He tuok up the saxophone, Then the heckelphone, then the basson quinte. "Consider," he said to his friends, "the ant. Talented, brilliant, industrious, clever- Exactly like me-an ant would never Say die tin he'd learned to play upon The chalumeau and the bathyphon. No! He wouldn't say die, and neither wIll I UntIl I've given them all a try. "Not just the above, you understand, But every goddam thing in the band That's played by wind I'll master them al1- The ophicleide squat and the tuba tall And the picco pipe and the saxotromba And other instruments wIthout number. "F or instance, I'll lay you a Hepplewhite lowboy That I can enchant you with the hautboy, The shawm, the serpent, the flageolet, The sarrusophone, the small musette, The organ (mouth) or the aeolina, The W urlitzer (mighty), the concertina, The piva, the phonikon, and the lur By Sunday week. And now I'm sure You'll excuse me. I better get to work." His frIends all thought him a dreadful jerk, But he did it, Joe did. B} Sunday week He could make those instruments moan, or squeak, Or hum, or whistle at will, he could. You got to admit the kid was good. And then a friend said, "How's about A little number on the flaut, Dear Joe?" So Joe took up his flute. He couldn't recall how to make zt toot' Too late, he considered that the ant Will never set out to do what it can't, .L nd knows when tu quit, and can let alone Well enough. Joe groaned a musical groan, And then he said die, and die he did * * * Good luck in the Great Orch-es-tra, kId. -PHILIP W. WRENN